“Instead of establishing business relationships between tech platforms and publishers, so they can negotiate payments going forward, California’s proposal morphed into a temporary grant program.” seattletimes.com/opinion/google…

The Telegram CEO arrest in France seems unsurprising, and like something that also could have happened under U.S. law. 1/

all the assignment editors have signed on Monday morning and have a burning question: Who is Pavel Durov??

Listen to Bobby Allyn's piece for Weekend Edition to learn about the tactics Google uses to evade regulators worldwide and avoid compensating publishers fairly. bit.ly/3XkXsAn

General counsel for National Center on Sexual Exploitation on their outreach to Telegram over CSAM take-downs: “Telegram has refused to cooperate with us. The more we follow up with them, the more they refuse to respond. They feel like they’re above the law. They feel like they

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov transferred to French court for ‘possible indictment’ npr.org/2024/08/28/nx-…

good time to remind that Section 230 liability does NOT shield against criminal prosecutions, such as facilitating the spread of CSAM

👇Easy to jump to top-down suppression narratives here when it seems to line up ideologically, but an automation fail can also be to blame, so be careful before you reach fast conclusions

Questions remain, but X says the NPR Arlington Cemetery link that was being blocked was a “false positive” and that it’s been corrected.

I can't get over this. Reed O'Connor found personal jurisdiction because two companies that X Corp. wanted to keep as advertisers are based in Texas. (Those companies are not parties in this litigation, on either side, lest you think I'm missing something obvious.)

Pavel Durov in February talking to Hannah Murphy: "... he refused to take sides on the Russia-Ukraine war or comment on Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, saying “Let’s not go there” ft.com/content/c12b1c…

NEW: Judge Reed O'Connor, the Northern District of Texas judge overseeing X Corp.'s lawsuit against Media Matters, has an Elon Musk-entangled investment history. A Law Dork in-depth report: lawdork.com/p/judge-overse…

First, Bobby Allyn wrote about Reed O’Connor’s Tesla investment. Then, Jacob Silverman got X Corp.’s investors unsealed. Then, O’Connor denied Media Matters’s motion to dismiss X’s lawsuit against them. All of that led me to this story. lawdork.com/p/judge-overse…

I went to Memphis to see Musk's xAI supercomputer and learn how it got fast-tracked. This whole story is bananas. The city council didn't know, the utility company signed NDAs, it doesn't have permits for methane gas generators... And all this is for Grok npr.org/2024/09/11/nx-…

every hip wine bar i’ve been to in NY and LA lately are really just large groups of people loitering on sidewalks under the glare of street lights